The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The wreck of a World War II cargo ship has become an unintentional time capsule at the bottom of the Red Sea.

This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

Some believe that this ancient mural depicts technology far ahead of its time, but in reality it's nothing quite out of place.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.